Maine
Federal appeals court upholds a ruling that blocked a Maine law restricting Canadian logging drivers
A federal appeals court docket has affirmed a ruling that blocked a Maine legislation proscribing Canadian logging truck driver operations in Maine.
The legislation, handed by the legislature final 12 months, would have forbidden corporations and enormous forest land homeowners from hiring non-U.S. residents to drive wooden merchandise from one location in Maine to a different.
The laws was supposed to limit international employees, underneath the federal H-2A visa program, from transporting Maine forest merchandise inside the state. Democratic Sen. Troy Jackson argued that the usage of international labor is an “injustice” that’s harming Maine employees.
However representatives of the forest merchandise business sued the state over the legislation, saying it violates the structure’s Equal Safety Clause. A district court docket decide granted a preliminary injunction towards the legislation earlier this 12 months. And an appeals court docket agreed this week, saying that the legislation’s restrictions are, quote, “possible preempted by federal legislation.”